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Brecksville Reservation is the largest urban park in the U.S. state of Ohio. Chippewa Creek flows through the 3,026-acre (1,225 ha) reservation, which is home to a section of the Buckeye Trail. The park supports a diverse set of ecosystems, featuring fields, a river plain, gorges, and a variety of forested areas. [3]
Oakland, Ohio may refer to any of several locations in the United States state of Ohio: Oakland, Butler County, Ohio; Oakland, Clinton County, Ohio; Oakland ...
Name County Size Image Year established; acres km 2; A. W. Marion State Park: Pickaway: 454: 1.84: 1950 Adams Lake State Park: Adams: 96: 0.39: 1950 Alum Creek State Park
The Division of Parks and Recreation dammed Hargus Creek with an earthen dam in 1948. The property became a state park under the administration of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources in 1950. It was renamed A. W. Marion State Park in honor of the first director of the Department of Natural Resources, who was a Pickaway County native, in ...
Oakland was laid out in 1806, and named for a grove of oak trees near the original town site. [2] A post office called Oakland was established in 1839, and remained in operation until 1905. [ 3 ]
Indian Mound Reserve is a public country park near the village of Cedarville, Ohio, United States.Named for two different earthworks within its bounds — the Williamson Mound and the Pollock Works — the park straddles Massies Creek as it flows through a small canyon.
The state bought the land in 1941, but the park did not open until 1957. The state used the land initially as a prison camp. [citation needed] In 1956, Four Mile Creek was dammed to form Acton Lake, named for Clyde Acton, the member of the Ohio General Assembly who persuaded the legislature to buy the property. [4]
The average population of Ohio's counties was 133,931; Franklin County was the most populous (1,326,063) and Vinton County was the least (12,474). The average land area is 464 sq mi (1,200 km 2 ). The largest county by area is Ashtabula County at 702.44 sq mi (1,819.3 km 2 ), and its neighbor, Lake County , is the smallest at 228.21 sq mi (591. ...